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🤖 Introducing Claude Cowork

🤖 Introducing Claude Cowork

PLUS: ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads

Cliff Worley
January 19, 2026

Happy Monday!

I’m making one small change to the newsletter this year: each week I’m going to recommend my favorite tool that I think you should actually play with. The goal is less scrolling and more experimenting.

This week’s pick is a fun one: Claude Cowork, a new research preview from Anthropic that turns Claude into a digital coworker. Instead of just chatting, Cowork lets Claude help organize files, draft documents, and work through multi-step tasks inside the Claude Desktop app on macOS. It brings agent-style workflows to everyday work without needing to write any code.

It genuinely feels like having a helpful coworker sitting next to you and it’s surprisingly fun to push it with creative or odd tasks.

I also included a fun prompt below that will make you laugh and help remind you that playing with AI is part of learning it.

PROMPT: Based on our conversation history, create a picture of how you feel I treat you

Source: Reddit

Enjoy!

In Today’s Edition:

🤯 Introducing Claude Cowork
🛠️ 1 new AI tool that you should make time to try this week
😮 ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
🤖 Claude's agentic desktop assistant for files

Read time: 4 minutes

🎨 AI ART

📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS

🛠 NEW AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

Introducing Cowork | Claude

Claude Code's agentic capabilities, now for everyone. Give Claude access to your files and let it organize, create, and edit documents while you focus on what matters.

claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview

🧠 Cowork – Claude's agentic desktop assistant for files

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